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Fears that the West is facing a surge in freelance terrorism grew yesterday
after a French soldier was stabbed in what police said was an attempt to
copy the Woolwich murder.

Private Cédric Cordier, 25, was taken to hospital following a knife attack
outside Paris three days after Drummer Lee Rigby was murdered.

Manuel Valls, the Interior Minister, said: “There are elements, the sudden
violence of the attack, that could lead one to think there could be a
comparison with what happened in London, .but at this stage, frankly, we
should be prudent.” Mr Valls has placed anti-terrorist investigators in
charge